Despite all the years that he has been with us, email, a large number of users around the world continue to use it on a regular basis. As with many other services and platforms that we use on the Internet, privacy and security are key here. Now we are going to show you how to protect your email messages thanks to what DuckDuckGo now offers us.
Although many think that the instant messaging services have replaced conventional email, this has happened, but only partially. Both in personal and professional use environments, we continue to use it on a regular basis. In addition, on many occasions we use attachments to share all kinds of data. But in most cases we want security and privacy when sending and receiving messages in this way, be maximum.
This is something we don’t always achieve, especially because of the hidden trackers that are often embedded in these emails. But all this is something that from now on we can avoid in a simple way. We’re telling you all this because the free beta for email protection from DuckDuckGo is now available to everyone. Surely this signature sounds familiar to you because of its Search Engine. This prioritizes above all the privacy that it provides us when using it.
But at the same time, keep in mind that the company also offers other privacy tools. In this way, during the last year it has been testing a service for protect our email. Well, this is a functionality that everyone can use from now on.
How do I protect mail with the DuckDuckGo service?
To give you an idea of how this service works, we just have to choose an email address from the duck.com domain. In addition, we will have to link it to our usual email address. In this way any mail sent to this new address that we have established will be forwarded to our usual inbox. For this we do not have to do anything else.
The main change that will occur with this change is that the company will automatically remove any mail tracker hidden email. At the same time, it will inform us that it has removed this hidden content and will tell us who was behind it. It is worth mentioning that, based on its tests, DuckDuckGo claims that it found that approximately 85% of emails contained hidden trackers.
We must also bear in mind that we have the possibility of creating an unlimited number of email addresses in this way. In addition to opening the service to everyone now, DuckDuckGo adds a link tracking protection. That helps prevent tracking on links we attach in messages and uses smart encryption that adds to unencrypted links.
To start with all this on the PC, we download the extensions for Firefox, Chrome or Edge. After that we go to this website of the firm, and we begin to configure the service following the steps.
